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Why the cross? The market place – redemption of debt Being bought back, set free from slavery

Why the cross? The market place – redemption of debt Being bought back, set free from slavery The law court – paying the penalty Justice and love The home – restoring a relationship ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself’ (2 Cor 5:19) The temple – sacrifice for sin

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Why the cross? The market place – redemption of debt Being bought back, set free from slavery

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  1. Why the cross? • The market place – redemption of debt • Being bought back, set free from slavery • The law court – paying the penalty • Justice and love • The home – restoring a relationship • ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself’ (2 Cor 5:19) • The temple – sacrifice for sin • Being made clean, purified from sin

  2. The cross • Fore-shadowed in the Old Testament • In the Law • In the Prophets, especially Isaiah • Foretold by Jesus in the Gospels • Explained by the New Testament writers

  3. Leviticus – law and sacrifice – the Temple • Sin symbolically transferred to an animal • The animal then killed in place of the guilty person • The shed blood of the animal brings about ‘cleansing’ of the guilty person But why the urgent necessity to deal with sin? Clean and unclean...

  4. Three states of existence (G Wenham) SACRIFICE Sanctify Cleanse Holy Clean Unclean Profane Pollute SIN and INFIRMITY Basic rule: nothing unclean must come into contact with anything holy – or it will die (Remember Isaiah’s terror in his vision in Is 6)

  5. God’s perfect standards remain today BUT Hebrews 9 • Whereas the blood of bulls and goats provided the only way in the OT • Temporary • Imperfect • Unable to deal with deliberate / habitual sin • The blood of Jesus is once and for all time • The perfect sacrifice • Taking away guilt from all who turn to him • To fulfil the demands of God’s purity • Surpassing all OT law

  6. Sanctify Cleanse Holy Clean Unclean Profane Pollute SIN and INFIRMITY

  7. ‘God made him who had no sin to become a sin offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God’ (2 Cor 5:21)

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